The DBK Historic Railway is a preserved railway association in

Crailsheim Crailsheim () is a town in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg. Incorporated in 1338, it lies east of Schwäbisch Hall and southwest of Ansbach in the Schwäbisch Hall (district), Schwäbisch Hall district. The city's mai ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. Founded as the "Kocher Valley Steam Railway" (''Dampfbahn Kochertal'') in 1985 at Sulzbach-Laufen, it moved gradually into the former steam engine

locomotive depot A motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine sheds" or just "sheds". Facilit ...

(''Bahnbetriebswerk'' or ''Bw'') at Crailsheim. In May 2006, there were over 100 members. The museum has many railway vehicles, some of which are operational, including

steam locomotives A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomot ...

and

diesel locomotives A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover (locomotive), power source is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed, differing mainly in the means by which mechanical power is con ...

as well as

passenger coaches A passenger railroad car or passenger car (American English), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (British English and International Union of Railways), or passenger bogie (Indian English) is a railroad car that is designed to ca ...

and goods wagons. These include a working

DRG Class 64 The Deutsche Reichsbahn had a standard passenger train tank engine with a wheel arrangement of 1′C1′ (UIC classification) or 2-6-2 (Whyte notation) and a low axle load, which was designated in their classification system as the DRG Class 64 ( ...

tank engine, no. 64 419, a

DRB Class 50 The DRB Class 50Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German Deutsche Reichsbah ...

wartime tender locomotive (not operational), no. 50 3545, and a

DB Class V 100 These DB Class V 100 diesel locomotives were produced in the late 1950s by the Deutsche Bundesbahn for non-electrified branch lines as a replacement for steam locomotives. The V 100 class was built in three different variants. Decommissioned lo ...

diesel, no. 212 084. It also offers special trips in historic trains between Schorndorf and Rudersberg.211 A major project, which has been undertaken with state aid, is the rebuilding of a

turntable A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound. The sound vibration waveforms are recorded as corresponding phys ...

in the

marshalling yard A classification yard (American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, and the former Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway y ...

Crailsheim station Crailsheim station is a junction station in the German state of Baden-Württemberg where four railway lines converge. It lies at the 30.4 km point (from Goldshöfe station, Goldshöfe) on the Upper Jagst Railway, with the chainage continuing ...

References

External links

DBK Historic Railway Website
Heritage railways in Germany Railway museums in Germany Transport in Baden-Württemberg Standard-gauge railways in Germany Museums in Baden-Württemberg {{BadenWürttemberg-struct-stub